Biodiversity protection in action
Sharing nature-inspired updates on Biodiversity Legacy activities, partnerships and connections across our wide country and diverse landscapes.
Empowering Landholders and Communities: Reflections from ALCA 2025
In October, BioDiversity Legacy joined landholders, Traditional Owners, scientists, and conservation organisations from across the country at the 2025 Australian Land Conservation Alliance Conference in Gimuy (Cairns), where we co-presented a session with Andrew and Angus Cleary on the Nuggan Sanctuary’s journey to secure lasting protection for their land.
Two islands, one vision – safeguarding Corner Inlet’s saltmarsh communities
Biodiversity Legacy’s bold vision for protecting vulnerable ecosystems at scale is being realised in South Gippsland, where Nooramunga Land & Sea (NL&S) has secured its second saltmarsh island.
The Ecolands Collective, where collaboration meets conservation
Biodiversity Legacy is proud to be part of the Ecolands Collective – a growing alliance of emerging and regional conservation groups working collaboratively to strengthen biolinks, support threatened species and drive high-impact environmental projects.
Biolink Coordinator recognised as a trusted voices for nature
Biodiversity Legacy Biolink Coordinator, Stuart Inchley, has been selected to join an august list of conservation experts in the Nature Media Centre – a ‘non-partisan resource’ that gives journalists access to experts with real-world insights into the complexities of environmental protection and management.
Next Generation Helping Hands for Glossy Black-cockatoos
Next generation conservationists are getting involved in efforts to save the nationally threatened Glossy Black-cockatoo in Gippsland by participating in the Helping Hands for Sheoak project.
Connecting with communities on Far South Coast of NSW
In June, members of the leadership team headed to Far South Coast to participate in workshop aimed at helping the community identify critically endangered Threatened Ecological Communities within the River Flat Eucalypt Forest.
The Secretive Quoll and the Rare Rock-wallaby
Biodiversity Legacy is one of several partners involved in a program to protect two nationally endangered species – the Spot-tailed Quoll and the Southern Brush-tailed Rock-wallaby – in East Gippsland.
Special Plants for Special Birds
The nationally threatened Glossy Black-cockatoo feeds almost exclusively on the seed cones of the Sheoak, which were affected by bushfires in East Gippsland. The Helping Hands project is revegetating stands of Sheoaks on private land, an important action to help recover the cockatoo population.
Strengthening wildlife corridors in South Gippsland
Landholders and nature lovers across South Gippsland are being encouraged to contribute to a Biolink Map being developed by the South Gippsland Landcare Network to give the community a bird’s eye view of potential wildlife corridors.
Land Covenantors Victoria unites for conservation
Launched in 2021 with the support of the Rendere Environmental Trust, EcoLands Collective and Trust for Nature, Land Covenantors Victoria quickly gained momentum, establishing itself as a model for locally-driven conservation.
Partnership to reverse biodiversity loss on Victoria’s Bass Coast
Biodiversity Legacy is pleased to announce a major partnership with Victoria’s Bass Coast Shire to tackle the biodiversity crisis through targeted actions to restore and protect habitat along this magnificent stretch of coast.
Survey highlights the importance of private land conservation
Two of Victoria’s most experienced ecologists and botanists recently surveyed three Trust for Nature properties in South Gippsland finding the largest stand of Endangered Slender Tree-ferns ever recorded, as well as other rare species.